<p>I know that you can work only up until you've earned the amount your award specifies. For me, that's $1000 per semester. But does that mean every single cent you earn goes into your tuition and ect? When you get your paycheck, does that mean you can't keep any for living expenses. I won't be getting much money from home, and so I think it might be better for me to just a regular job. Thanks in advance for input.</p>
<p>you get a check, and you can use that money for anything you want</p>
<p>Oooh I never knew that. You still gotta pay the tuition somehow so I'm gonna get a job as well.</p>
<p>Work study is great b/c it does not diminish the amount of fin aid you can get the next academic year. However, a regular job will lessen the amount of aid you get when you earn over about ~$3,600. So earn the max you can under work study...call and ask for more. Earn ~$3,600 over the summer and take out student loans for the remainder and apply for outside scholarships.</p>
<p>"o earn the max you can under work study...call and ask for more"</p>
<p>you can ask for more through work study if you make the max?</p>
<p>There are limits to a student's eligibility for Work Study....we just had to let one of our Work Study Students go for the semester because she had used all of her eligibility already.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. I think I'll work this summer and save and also work the work study job as well in the fall and I'll have enough money to live and pay for school. Also, what kind of job would they give an English major?</p>
<p>Nik - I have work study questions, if you happen to know the answers I'd love to hear how this works.
Does the govt. help with the costs of work-study.
Is the college supposed to give work-study students priority over non work-study students when a job comes open.
I've seen a few things that seemed off to me. The first is schools offering 4,000 work-study jobs, which imho is not likely to actually happen due to time issues and job openings.<br>
The other is that, at least at one college I know of, the non work-study kids grab up the jobs and there are few or no jobs for the work study kids.</p>
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**The first is schools offering 4,000 work-study jobs, which imho is not likely to actually happen due to time issues and job openings.
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<p>Look if you calculate 15 weeks of work in a semester @$9./hour=15 hours a week. How is that difficult?</p>
<p>$9 an hour? not at any school my kids have attended so far. Minimum wage was the rule. my DD has had two and three jobs-at the same time-in different departments. Average total hours per week, and my understanding is this is common, was 10 hours a week per student.</p>
<p>I only report what I know from first hand experience. I know some jobs pay more than $9. I thought what I reported was a fair average. At my school there are more jobs than kids to fill them.</p>
<p>I know nobody who has more than ONE job and some kids do the same job with pay increases over their 4 years. </p>
<p>What kind of school are you talking about?</p>
<p>OldinJersey</p>
<p>My understanding is that the gov't pays for half of the salary so students on workstudy are more "desirable," perhaps, than nonworkstudy students.</p>
<p>My son works approx 10 hours per week @ $10/hour. He somehow forgot to tell his employer that he was on workstudy so last semester he was paid as a regular employee and this semester it is under workstudy.</p>
<p>Darn I just wrote this once and silly CC made me sign in (again) then lost my post.</p>
<p>From what I have learned so far (and I am just in the learning process with my D starting college this fall) - work study is limited to 20 hours per week during the school year plus limited to the amount of your award. The government does subsidise it but I thought I thought I read somewhere that they subsidise it by more that 50% (75% maybe) but I can't find the information anywhere right now. Actual subsidised work study jobs cannot be given to anyone who does not have a work-study award as part of their finaid package.</p>
<p>At my Ds school the work-study jobs we have found so far the wages seem to vary from a little over minimum wage to a maximum of $9 per hour (though those seem rarer). The jobs seem to range from working at the campus rec centre to technical/lab type jobs to community service type jobs such as working with the developmentally disabled or tutoring at local schools.
Certain jobs are only available to work study recipients. Supposedly there are usually more jobs available than students to fill them. I guess we will find out for sure in the fall. :)</p>
<p>there are differenty types of workstudy; Federal work study, work study employment.</p>
<p>The Federal Work-Study Program (FWSP) is a federally funded program and was established by Congress through the Higher Education Act of 1965 to assist needy students earn money to meet educational costs. Participation in the program is determined by the student's financial need and is awarded as part of the financial aid package. Earnings are not applied directly to the tuition bill, but are used by the student to cover costs such as books, personal items, and transportation. FWSP funds may only be used on campus with on-campus employers or with approved off-campus community service employers. part of the monies for federal work-study is subsidized.</p>
<p>Employment is an alternative form of funding for student who do not qualify for work-study funds, or may not be eligible to work off campus for citizenship reasons. Regulation of the Employment program mirrors the FWSP in that a student must show a financial need to be eligible for such funding. Employment funds are not permissible for off-campus use. These jobs are not subsidized and there are many departments in the school that offer work study employment.</p>
<p>At our institution, federal work-study students have top priority....but I really don't think we have many willing to work. My office is having a difficult time finding someone to replace our FWS student who ran out of funding. We are the ones who dole out the funding...and we can't even find our own students :(</p>
<p>This is an example:</p>
<p>Program Description</p>
<p>The Community Service Work-Study Program provides employment opportunities for students who need earnings to assist with the cost of their college education. The program, co-administered by the Haas Center for Public Service and the Financial Aid Office at Stanford, helps students combine the financial need to work with the personal goal of helping the community. The program offers both academic year and summer opportunities. </p>
<p>The academic year program begins September 16, 2006 and ends June 15, 2007. Organizations can hire students to work part-time while they are on campus taking classes during the academic year according to the following guidelines. The students? wages and benefits are paid as follows:</p>
<pre><code> Federal Government pays 75%
Stanford University pays 15%
Community Organization pays 10%
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<p>All work-study students are officially employed through Stanford University. The community organization?s contribution is paid to Stanford upon billing at the end of each quarter for the student?s work. Benefits are calculated at 8.7% of a student?s total earnings. Stanford determines the pay rate for each student based on a standard scale for student employee wages used across the University. Previous Stanford work experience and the job requirements will affect rate of pay. ** Stanford minimum wage for 2006-2007 is $10.30 an hour, and most students earn between $10.30 and $11.50 an hour.**</p>
<p>Thats an impressive pay rate...</p>